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Men DO Make
Passes
At Girls Who Wear
Glasses
With Self-Portrait
YVONNE RAPHAEL,
of Melbourne, has a 1954 twist to Dorothy Par- ker's rather blistering com- ment that "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." Men, she says, "just love women who wear really attractive and original glasses."
And Miss Raphael should know. She is managing dir- ector of a Melbourne opti- cal firm, and has just return- ed from a seven-months tour abroad in search of un- usual frames for spectacles.
In a navy-blue Balmain suit, with a spark of bright emerald green outlining the buttonhole in her lapel, and whirling a pair of heavily rimmed tortoiseshell spec- tacles, she said:
"I'd rather like to make tortoiseshell popular again
with women."
Miss Raphael thinks, too, that women should have a wardrobe of frames just as they have dresses—some for sport, some for day, some for evening.
"Part of my search for frames came to an end in a small town about 60 miles from London, where I dis- covered a man who makes the most origi-
nal frames I have ever seen."
There Miss Raphael found frames with brown glass fish and flow- ers decorating the sides, frames in really bright opaque col- ours with a "kiss curl" in the same col- our either
curling up over one eye or down on to one cheek. One unusual model, in col- oured plastic, had a continu- ation of the
frame making a V-shape on the forehead
up to the
widow's peak, and with a tiny teardrop pearl suspend- ed from the
middle.
"That one sounds incred- ible," said Miss Raphael, "but it's really stunning!"
But, in England, not many people seemed to have the courage to wear fancy
frames.
"In France, of course, the majority of wearers have rimless glasses—even in sun-glasses." she said. "Ital-
MISS YVONNE RAPHAEL, of Melbourne, who recently returned after a seven-months tour abroad looking for unusual frames for
spectacles.
MISS NORA HEYSEN, with her self-por- trait which is in the "Artists by Artists" exhibition at the National Art Gallery. A self-portrait of her father, Hans Heysen, also in the same col- lection, shows the strong family resem- blance between the two, although painted
years apart.
ian glasses are very attrac- tive; the ones most worn are mainly very plain, but lovely shapes."
In Italy there were frames with straw enclosed between two layers of clear plastic.
"One of my favourite pairs of glasses is covered with lizard-skin. The Em- press Soraya of Persia has a pair, too, and I hope Austra- lian women will be wearing them soon."
One of the newer ideas stems from a Continental habit of wearing glasses tied loosely around the neck with a piece of cord or ribbon, when not actually wearing
them.
"For people who wear reading glasses," said Miss Raphael, "there are small sil- ver chains. For women I've brought back fine pearl ropes ending in small diamante clips which attach to the sides of the glasses. Or they can have ribbons in colours to match their dresses with the
same small clips."